Menlo Park-based Meta is ending a COVID policy on Facebook and Instagram.

The social media sites will no longer remove posts with misinformation in countries that are no longer in a public health emergency.  

Meta says it will take a more “tailored approach” to the rules after claiming it has already taken down 25 million pieces of content for spreading falsehoods during the pandemic.

Meta cited the end of the World Health Organization’s global public health emergency declaration as the reason for the change: “Our Covid-19 misinformation rules will no longer be in effect globally as the global public health emergency declaration that triggered those rules has been lifted.”